< 1 minute readJo Fitz writes: Here’s the match report as seen from the perspective of an umpire. Car Colston is a village just east of Nottingham that centres on its cricket pitch. Pavilion on one side, pub on the other. The pitch has the “Big House” end and the “cow” end. A
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South Africa v England Lions match report
< 1 minute readLemon Bella writes: Indian Skimmer and I went to see South Africa against the England Lions at Grace Road. Upon arriving at the ground, we spent twenty minutes trying to find a cup of coffee. Eventually we had to ask someone else who had a cup. In retrospect, we should
Continue readingEngland v South Africa at the Oval – a match report
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2 minute readEd (33 and a half) writes: My sister’s broadband had stopped working so I rang her ISP’s help desk. After 30 minutes of stupid, obvious questions they said they’d have to send a BT engineer to have a look. When they told me it was going to cost £180 I
Continue readingSurrey v Durham County Championship match report
< 1 minute read668 Neighbour of the Beast writes: Cricket festival season and so to the outground of Guildford – a venue where you and the boundary rope can become acquainted. It’s quite spiritual to sit on the grass and not look at the back of an advertising hoarding. Sadly, on a less
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2 minute readOur inbox is perilously close to empty. One of you better go to a cricket match or something. D Charlton writes: I have recently become an associate member of MCC. This means I can sit in the pavilion at Lord’s and watch all but the biggest match days. I can’t
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2 minute readLemon Bella writes: Indian Skimmer and I went to see all three days of the South African tour match against Somerset. We hate the ground at Taunton, it’s rubbish. It’s only picturesque if you look at it from a certain angle, and not once did we see anyone with a
Continue readingSurrey v Middlesex Twenty20 match report
2 minute readLong-serving King Cricket contributor, SimonC, writes: Twenty20 being the all new whizzbang format that appeals to even the most curmudgeonly of non-cricket fans, we rounded up twelve grumbling malcontents to see this completely dead rubber at the Oval. Many were the piercing questions we were forced to field from our
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2 minute readMatch reports are still welcome. The guidelines are: don’t write much and don’t mention the actual cricket. 668 Neighbour Of The Beast writes: Seduced by advertising? Never! But the comfy retro chairs looked inviting. To Riverside, home of the Durham Doodahs. The scorecard stated entertainment provided by the Durham Allstarzz.
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2 minute readSoviet Onion writes: I returned from a holiday in Sri Lanka last week, and within minutes of getting home I did what I usually do after work and went through lots of pages on Teletext (does anyone else still do this?). On page 354 I noticed upcoming cricket fixtures –
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